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Кель-Суу This week was probably the one that I enjoyed the most until now, but also realize that time is running and I have a few weeks before to leave. That means that I have to plan what to visit and what to do in my free time and work hard to reach our goals. We want to use my coordinator's studio for the charity exhibition, so during this week we set up the place for it and took pro pictures of paints and sculptures that can take part in the event. Also this week people will come to check the place and give us some feedback. We are continuing the brainstorming about the art therapy events, our first goal is to start the advertisement as soon as possible. I visited a magical place near the border with China, a lake at 3500 m altitude. I left the city on Friday evening, travelled all night and reached the camp for breakfast. The all-night in a bus was a small sacrifice comparing the experience I have done in Kel Suu.    I have to say that I felt the altitude during the 7 km ...

 Бишкек I had a week full of art, with my work we continue with meetings and planning for the project, plus in my free time, I did a walking tour focus on visiting the studios of local artists. With my coordinator, we decided to move on two parallel projects: one is the charity exhibition, which was our main plan, I'm confident that before the end of this month there will be one, the second is a series of art therapy workshops for kids. We met an Argentinian girl that wants to help us, and I hope I will see the first one.   During the walking tour, I had a premiere of a new statue that will be arranged in the city centre soon, the one that now is there didn't get good feedback from the audience. The artists we visited had studied in different cities of Russia (Moscow, S. Petersbourg) in the 90s, at that period the realism from the Soviet period was not relevant anymore and in search of their own style they came back to Kyrgyzstan. Kyrgyz art is connected to nature, which ...

 Сары-Челек The last week was quite intense, we had a development in our project: we found two possible locations for our events and we started to renovate them. The first one is a house just outside Bishkek, with a big garden and a relaxing atmosphere. We put in order the garden and cleaned where need it. Our Idea is to use it for big workshops, or maybe weekends workshops.  The second option is my coordinator studio, we think that it can be useful for regular events, maybe art therapy for kids. I liked the afternoon we put in order the studio because we were trying to understand where to put the different art and installations, which was very interesting. We had a meeting in this place with artists and planned the future activities, I think we are on the right way with our project. During the weekend, I visited Sary-Chelek national reserve, there there are several lakes and we saw most of them with a really nice hike, and we swam in two of them. The trip was really beautiful...

Bishkek This week I didn't travel to the countryside, I stayed in Bishkek working with my coordinator. We had several meetings, with artists and people that want to collaborate with us on the project. Probably we will be able to have some workshops where artists with different backgrounds will work together to produce arts that will be sell in one, or maybe more, exhibition/s. During my free time, I visited different parts of the city, by myself and also on a walking tour. I feel that I started to become familiar with this city, I have still a lot of things to learn, but I'm not just a tourist anymore. Now I have also a photographic project in my mind, if there will be a development in the idea I will let you know in the next diaries. With the walking tour, we visited where the industrial part of the city started. Almost 100 years ago Interhelpo organisation comes to the city from Czechoslovakia with the idea to develop the country to industrialisation.  There are still the fir...